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Originally Posted by giallo
Actually, you seem to not be listening when people who live in Kelowna explain why having towers spread around isn't such a bad thing. I'll explain again.
Kelowna's road infrastructure was built for a city of 50,000 people. The city was never planned to be a major centre. Short-sighted, yes, but that's the reality of Kelowna right now. Most road arteries cannot be expanded making rush hour going in and out of central Kelowna already bad during rush hour. Putting every single high-rise development in to one spot is only going to exasperate the situation.
As of right now, there are a handful of districts that cater to the local population. These areas have office buildings with doctor's offices, law firms, dentists...you name it. How would it benefit those that live in these districts to have to drive downtown for these services? You'd add even more daytime travel to an already clogged road system.
Having said that, the lions share of Kelowna big projects are all downtown. I mean, a 37 floor tower is currently under construction right across the street from a 16 floor building which is just down the street from a 21 floor tower going up.
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Firstly, you mean't "exacerbate" not "exasperate" because exasperated is how I feel every time I discuss this. As i've explained before, putting office buildings together makes it quicker and easier to access shopping and professional services so your notion that spreading it all over the place is better makes no sense.
Secondly, What is preventing Kelowna from expanding it's infrastructure? Other cities do it all the time but for some reason Kelowna won't which is very strange since they rebuilt the bridge yet refuse to touch their precious, hopelessly congested roads.
There might be a couple of big projects downtown but had the city planned it's growth properly it would already have a decent skyline because as it stands now the downtown makes it look like a town of 30,000 people. Even Vernon with a third the population of Kelowna, looks bigger
Does this really look like the downtown of a city of ~200,000 people?
